Topic on Extension talk:Replace Text

(Pulled from 2008(2018) archive. (no reply))

I (still) think that a Replace_Text search-only feature, as separate user-right, could be useful.

Especially due to the fact that the normal MW search feature is more targeted in its functionality at wiki visitors, and not at general editors. (that's at least my POV on MW's normal search feature)

That way the search-only feature could be given to active editors to help them in finding potential additional edit targets. (leaving the real global changes still in the hands of higher level users)

Sorry for not responding to this for 11 years... a precise wikitext search feature could indeed be useful, but it seems outside of the "purview" of this extension. It seems better to put that functionality into a separate extension - or even to to make it an option in MediaWiki's standard Special:Search, although that seems doubtful.

>Sorry for not responding to this for 11 years

Oops. That would be just one year, as 2008 should have been 2018. Sorry about that.

>It seems better to put that functionality into a separate extension.

That would of course work too.

Extension:CirrusSearch provides search functionality in wikitext using the insource: modifier, and it supports external storage, compression, etc, features that this extension doesn't support.

See for example: Special:Search/insource:inputbox

Oh, I didn't know that. That's great!